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I was almost on the wrong side of a knife!

Elohim12 hrs

Don’t worry Isaac… you blessed the right boy! You’ll see.

Esau4 hrs

Not fair!!! I was tricked by Mom and her son.

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Hebrews 11:20

Genesis 21-27; 35

Passing on the Blessing to the

Next Generation

Passing on the Blessing Isaac

Hebrews 11:20

By faith Isaac invoked future blessing on Jacob and Esau.

Passing on the Blessing Isaac

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Our children learn from our successes.

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Isaac learned to obey his father

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Isaac learned to reflect deeply on

God’s words.

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Genesis 2462 Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.

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Genesis 2464 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel 65 and said to the servant, “Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. 

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Genesis 2466 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Genesis 24

63a And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening…

Isaac learned to follow

God’s lead in faith.

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Genesis 261 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the earlier famine of Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.

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Genesis 262 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

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Genesis 263 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

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Genesis 264 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

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Genesis 265 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.” 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

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Our children pick up our bad habits.

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Genesis 266 So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.

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Genesis 268 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with

Rebekah his wife. 

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Genesis 269 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 

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Genesis 2610 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” 

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Genesis 2611 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

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Our children desperately need our

blessing.

Putting the “FUN” back in DYSFUNCTIONAL

“Insanity doesn’t run in my family. It strolls through, taking time to get to know each of us personally.”

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Genesis 27

34 As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!” 

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Genesis 27

35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.”

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Genesis 2736 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 

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Genesis 2737 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 

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Genesis 2738 Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

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